# Deaths in January 2005
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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2005.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## January 2005
### 1

* Harold Bodle, 84, English footballer (Birmingham City F.C., Bury F.C., Stockport County F.C. and Accrington Stanley F.C.).
* Shirley Chisholm, 80, American politician, first black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Congress.
* Robert Fortier, 78, American actor.
* Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, 73, British newspaper executive, peer, and Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.
* Bob Matsui, 63, American Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, cancer.
* Dmitry Nelyubin, 33, Russian cyclist, murdered.
* Patrick Denis O'Donnell, 82, Irish military historian and army officer.
* Willem Scholten, 77, Dutch politician and economist.

### 2

* Arnold Denker, 90, American chess player, brain cancer.
* Cyril Fletcher, 91, British comedian (That's Life!).
* Frank Kelly Freas, 82, American science fiction artist.
* Félix Galimi, 84, Argentine Olympic fencer.
* Margaret Gardiner, 100, British art collector and left wing political activist.
* Paul Manning, 45, American television writer (ER, L.A. Law), colorectal cancer.
* Maclyn McCarty, 93, American geneticist and DNA research pioneer, heart failure.
* Claude Meillassoux, 79, French neo-Marxist economic anthropologist and Africanist.
* Edo Murtić, 83, Croatian painter.
* C. M. Pennington-Richards, 93, British film director and cinematographer.
* Ngo Van, 93, Vietnamese revolutionary.
* Charles Paul Wilp, 72, German advertising-designer, artist, and photographer.
* John Ziman, 79, British-New Zealand physicist and humanist.

### 3

* Koo Chen-fu, 88, Chinese negotiator with the People's Republic of China, renal cancer.
* Paul Darragh, 51, Irish Olympic equestrian showjumper, heart failure.
* Jyotindra Nath Dixit, 68, Indian national security adviser and former foreign secretary, heart attack.
* Will Eisner, 87, American comic book artist (The Spirit), complications following surgery.
* Misael Escuti, 78, Chilean football player, cardiovascular disease.
* Mehmet Faruk Sükan, 84, Turkish physician, politician and government minister.
* László Vadász, 56, Hungarian chess grandmaster.
* Kay Williamson, 69, British linguist, heart attack.

### 4

* Ali Al-Haidri, Iraqi governor of Baghdad province, assassinated.
* Humphrey Carpenter, 58, British biographer and broadcaster, heart attack.
* Guy Davenport, 77, American writer, translator, illustrator, and painter, lung cancer.
* Frank Harary, 83, American mathematician, a foremost expert on graph theory.
* Robert Heilbroner, 85, American economist.
* Marguerite Pearson, 72, American professional baseball player (AAGPBL).
* Bud Poile, 80, Canadian professional ice hockey player, member of Hockey Hall of Fame, Parkinson's disease.
* Alton Tobey, 90, American muralist and painter.
* Jorge Eduardo Wright, 82, Argentine mycologist.

### 5

* Antonio Benítez-Rojo, 73, Cuban writer.
* Gabrielle Daye, 93, English stage actress.
* Martín Acosta y Lara, 79, Uruguayan basketball player.
* René Le Hénaff, 103, French film editor and director.
* Danny Sugerman, 50, American music manager, lung cancer.

### 6

* Vern Barberis, 76, Australian weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
* Sergio Fubini, 76, Italian theoretical physicist.
* Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, 70, American politician, lung cancer.
* Lois Hole, 75, Canadian businesswoman, author and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, cancer.
* Makgatho Mandela, 54, South African last surviving son of Nelson Mandela, AIDS.
* Tarquinio Provini, 71, Italian motorcycle road racer.
* Louis Robichaud, 79, Canadian former premier of New Brunswick.
* Nicholas Scott, 71, British politician.
* Boris Shtokolov, 74, Soviet and Russian singer, one of the greatest basses of the 20th century.
* Ali Shukri, 85, Yugoslav-Kosovan politician, President of the Executive Council (1963–1967) and Presidency (1981–1982).
* Sindhu, 33, Indian actress, lung infection.
* A. Hays Town, 101, American architect.

### 7

* Harry Boyles, 93, American baseball player.
* Evgeny Chuprun, 77, Soviet and Russian realist painter.
* Pierre Daninos, 91, French novelist (The Diary of Major Thompson).
* Rosemary Kennedy, 86, American sister of John F. Kennedy.
* Ivar Medaas, 66, Norwegian folksinger and fiddle player.
* Aleksandr Prokhorov, 58, Soviet footballer (Dynamo Kyiv, FC Spartak Moscow).

### 8

* Badja Djola, 56, American actor (Mississippi Burning, The Hurricane, The Last Boy Scout), heart attack.
* Tage Fahlborg, 92, Swedish sprint canoeist.
* Jacqueline Joubert, 83, French television announcer, producer and director.
* Suvad Katana, 35, Bosnian footballer, heart attack.
* Friedrich Kuhn, 85, West German bobsledder and Olympic champion.
* Aksella Luts, 99, Estonian screenwriter, actress and filmmaker.
* Song Renqiong, 95, Chinese general and politician.
* David Shaw, 50, Australian scuba diver, drowned.
* Michel Thomas, 90, Polish-American linguist, decorated war veteran and nazi hunter.

### 9

* Artidoro Berti, 84, Italian Olympic runner.
* Gonzalo Gavira, 79, Mexican sound effects creator (The Exorcist, The Towering Inferno).
* Joanne Grant, 74, American journalist and communist activist.
* Koji Hashimoto, 68, Japanese film director.
* Antonín Klimek, 67, Czech historian.
* Bob Mabe, 75, American baseball player.
* Ricky Rodriguez, 29, American member of a religious cult "The Family", suicide by gunshot.
* Michael P. Ryan, 88, United States Marine Corps major general.
* Vantile Whitfield, 74, American arts administrator, Alzheimer's disease.

### 10

* Gene Baylos, 98, American comedian.
* Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium, 77, Belgian Princess of Belgium and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, cancer.
* Georges Bernier, 75, French humorist.
* Margherita Carosio, 96, Italian soprano.
* Fernand Cazenave, 80, French rugby player and national coach.
* Tommy Fine, 90, American Major League Baseball player (Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns).
* James Forman, 76, American executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, colorectal cancer.
* Stephen Hastings, 83, British politician, MP for Mid Bedfordshire (1960–1983), esophageal cancer.
* Erwin Hillier, 93, British cinematographer.
* Ursula Hoff, 95, Australian scholar and author on art.
* Kalevi Hämäläinen, 72, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic champion.
* Helmut Losch, 57, East German heavyweight weightlifting champion.
* Jan Pieter Schotte, 76, Belgian official of the Roman Curia, cardinal since 1994.
* Inna Tumanyan, 75, Soviet-Armenian film director and screenwriter.
* Arthur Walworth, 101, American writer and biographer.

### 11

* Alessandro Ruspoli, 9th Prince of Cerveteri, 80, Italian aristocrat, actor and socialite.
* Spencer Dryden, 66, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane), cancer.
* Jimmy Griffin, 61, American singer, guitarist, songwriter, member of rock band Bread, cancer.
* Miriam Hyde, 91, Australian composer (Valley of Rocks).
* Fabrizio Meoni, 47, Italian motorcyclist, motorcycle accident.
* Jerzy Pawłowski, 72, Polish fencer and Olympic champion.
* Thelma White, 94, American actress (Reefer Madness), pneumonia.

### 12

* Domiciano Cavém, 72, Portuguese football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
* Gaston Clermont, 91, Canadian businessman and politician.
* Kenneth Farmer, 92, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player and sports administrator.
* Leila Fawzi, 86, Egyptian actress and model.
* Manfred Fuhrmann, 79, German classical philologist and academic.
* Herbert Goldstein, 82, American physicist.
* Tullio Gonnelli, 92, Italian athlete and Olympic silver medalist.
* Bernard Meadows, 89, British modernist sculptor.
* Amrish Puri, 72, Indian actor (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Mr. India, Gandhi), cerebral hemorrhage.
* Jay Schulberg, 65, American advertising executive, pancreatic cancer.
* Edmund S. Valtman, 90, Estonian-American Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist.

### 13

* Earl Cameron, 89, Canadian broadcaster and The National anchor (1959–1966).
* Jacques de Tonnancour, 88, Canadian artist and art educator from Montreal, Quebec.
* Nell Rankin, 81, United States mezzo-soprano opera singer (Metropolitan Opera).
* K. V. Sarma, 85, Indian historian of science.
* Hisham Sharabi, 78, American cultural historian and political activist, cancer.

### 14

* Ward Beysen, 63, Belgian politician and freemason, suicide by drowning.
* Edwin Bélanger, 94, Canadian musician.
* Ofelia Guilmáin, 83, Spanish film and stage actress, pneumonia.
* Charlotte MacLeod, 82, American mystery writer, Alzheimer's disease.
* Conroy Maddox, 92, British surrealist painter.
* Rudolph Moshammer, 64, German fashion designer, homicide.
* Carl Möhner, 83, Austrian film actor, director, screenwriter and painter, Parkinson's disease.
* Rocky Roberts, 63, American-Italian rhythm and blues singer.
* Jesús Rafael Soto, 81, Venezuelan kinetic artist.

### 15

* Felix Aprahamian, 90, English music critic.
* Leonid Brekhovskikh, 87, Russian scientist.
* Terry Crowley, 51, New Zealand linguists of Oceanic languages.
* Walter Ernsting, 84, German science fiction author (Perry Rhodan).
* Elizabeth Janeway, 91, American feminist author.
* Dan Lee, 35, Canadian animator (Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., Toy Story 2), heart failure.
* Werner Lesser, 72, East German Olympic ski jumper.
* Ruth Warrick, 89, American actress (Citizen Kane, All My Children, Song of the South), pneumonia.
* Karapetê Xaço, 104, Armenian singer of traditional Kurdish Dengbêj music.
* Victoria de los Ángeles, 81, Spanish soprano, heart attack.

### 16

* H. Bentley Glass, 98, American biologist, known for controversial views.
* Agustín González, 74, Spanish film actor, pneumonia.
* Yoshito Matsushige, 92, Japanese photojournalist.
* Jerzy Pławczyk, 93, Polish Olympic high jumper.
* Gudrun Wegner, 49, East German swimmer, cancer.
* Marjorie Williams, 47, American journalist. The Washington Post columnist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair, liver cancer.

### 17

* Maria Albuleț, 72, Romanian chess Woman Grandmaster.
* Charlie Bell, 44, Australian business executive, CEO of McDonald's, colon cancer.
* Bezerra da Silva, 77, Brazilian samba musician.
* Basil Hoskins, 75, English theatre and film actor.
* Anatoly Kartashov, 67, Russian water polo player and Olympic silver medalist.
* Virginia Mayo, 84, American film actress (White Heat, The Best Years of Our Lives), heart attack.
* Albert Schatz, 84, American microbiologist, discoverer of streptomycin, pancreatic cancer.
* George P. L. Walker, 78, British volcanologist.
* Hansjoachim Walther, 65, German politician and mathematician.
* Zhao Ziyang, 85, Chinese politician, Communist Party General Secretary (1987-1989), complications of multiple strokes.

### 18

* Charles Thurston Brockman, 77, American broadcaster and president of the United States Auto Club (1969-1972).
* Gabrielle Brune, 92, British actress.
* Vivian H. H. Green, 89, British priest and historian.
* Robert Moch, 90, American rower.
* Pez Whatley, 54, American professional wrestler, heart attack.

### 19

* Theodore W. Allen, 85, American scholar, writer, and activist.
* Bill Andersen, 80, New Zealand communist and trade union leader.
* Lamont Bentley, 31, American actor (Moesha) and rapper, traffic collision.
* Jens-Halvard Bratz, 84, Norwegian businessman and politician.
* Carlos Cortez, 81, American artist and political activist.
* K. Sello Duiker, 30, South African novelist, suicide by hanging.
* Anita Kulcsár, 28, Hungarian handball player and Olympic silver medalist, traffic collision.
* Rinat Mardanshin, 41, Russian motorcycle speedway rider, complications during surgery.
* Stan West, 78, American gridiron football player.

### 20

* Parveen Babi, 55, Indian actress, diabetes.
* Ivor G. Balding, 96, American polo player.
* Bogle, 40, Jamaican dancer, homicide.
* Per Borten, 91, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway (1965-1971).
* Dick Gallagher, 49, American composer, predominantly for off-Broadway productions.
* Solomon King, 74, American singer, cancer.
* Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, 91, Polish journalist and decorated World War II hero, head of the Radio Free Europe Polish section.
* Miriam Rothschild, 96, British zoologist, entomologist and author.
* Hamdan Sheikh Tahir, 81, Malaysian politician, governor of Penang (1989-2001).

### 21

* Jacques Andrieux, 87, French fighter pilot during World War II.
* Theun de Vries, 97, Dutch writer.
* Ole Due, 73, Danish jurist and judge.
* John L. Hess, 87, American journalist.
* Henry Källgren, 73, Swedish football player.
* Edward F. McLaughlin, Jr., 84, American attorney and politician.
* Kaljo Raid, 83, Estonian composer, cellist and pastor.
* Neville Scott, 69, New Zealand Olympic runner.
* Steve Susskind, 62, American voice-over actor, traffic collision.

### 22

* William Deakin, 91, British World War II hero and founder of St Antony's College, Oxford.
* César Gutiérrez, 61, Venezuelan baseball player.
* Patsy Rowlands, 74, British actress, known for her roles in the Carry On films, breast cancer.
* William Trager, 94, American parasitologist.
* Consuelo Velázquez, 88, Mexican songwriter and lyricist, and author of the song "Bésame Mucho".
* Rose Mary Woods, 87, American politician, former secretary of Richard Nixon and key Watergate figure.

### 23

* Harley Baldwin, 59, American land developer and art dealer, kidney cancer.
* Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, 85, British politician and peer, Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.
* Johnny Carson, 79, United States comedian and television host, emphysema.
* Douglas Knight, 83, American educator, businessman, author, former president of Lawrence University and Duke University.
* Charles Martin, 45, American gridiron football player, kidney failure.
* Mutsuko Sakura, 83, Japanese actress.
* Eddie Sinclair, 67, Scottish snooker player.

### 24

* June Bronhill, 75, Australian actress and opera, operetta and musical comedy singer, Alzheimer's disease.
* Else Krüger, 89, German secretary of nazi official Martin Bormann during World War II.
* Paritala Ravindra, 56, Indian politician, homicide.
* Lev Saychuk, 81, Soviet Olympic fencer.
* Leslie Wood, 72, English footballer.

### 25

* Barbara Craig, 89, British archaeologist, classicist, and academic, specialising in classical pottery.
* Philip Johnson, 98, American architect.
* Ron Kersey, 55, American keyboardist, songwriter, producer and arranger.
* Vikki LaMotta, 75, American model, ex-wife of American boxer Jake LaMotta.
* Manuel Lopes, 97, Cape Verdean novelist, poet and essayist.
* Ray Peterson, 65, American popular singer ("Tell Laura I Love Her"), cancer.
* Joop Rohner, 77, Dutch water polo goalkeeper.
* Max Velthuijs, 81, Dutch writer and illustrator.
* Netti Witziers-Timmer, 81, Dutch sprinter and Olympic champion.

### 26

* Fraser Elliott, 83, Canadian lawyer and philanthropist.
* Rudi Falkenhagen, 71, Dutch actor.
* Peter A. Garland, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative from Maine (1961–1963).
* Jackie Henderson, 73, Scottish footballer.
* Josie MacAvin, 85, Irish set director.
* Cordelia Scaife May, 76, American philanthropist and heiress to Mellon family fortune, pancreatic cancer.
* Inge Pohmann, 83/84, German tennis player.

### 27

* Shah A M S Kibria, 73, Bangladeshi economist, diplomat and politician, homicide.
* Rado Lenček, 83, Slovene linguist and ethnologist.
* Aurélie Nemours, 94, French painter.
* Jonathan Welsh, 57, Canadian actor.

### 28

* Artūras Barysas, 50, Lithuanian counter-culture actor, singer, photographer and filmmaker.
* Daniel Branca, 53, Argentinian Disney comic book artist, heart attack.
* Jim Capaldi, 60, British rock musician and songwriter (Traffic), stomach cancer.
* Lucien Carr, 79, American United Press International editor, bone cancer.
* Karen Lancaume, (aka Karen Bach), 32, French adult film performer, suicide by drug overdose.
* Paul A. Partain, 58, American actor (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), cancer.
* Jacques Villeret, 53, French actor and comedian, internal hemorrhage.

### 29

* Ron Feinberg, 72, American actor (A Boy and His Dog, Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling, The Centurions).
* Eric Griffiths, 64, British guitarist in the musical group The Quarrymen, pancreatic cancer.
* Jean Hengen, 92, Luxembourgish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Ephraim Kishon, 80, Israeli dramatist, screenwriter and film director, heart attack.
* Žika Mitrović, 83, Serbian film director.
* Bill Shadel, 96, American journalist, prostate cancer.
* Joan Tompkins, 89, American actress.

### 30

* Mary Beck, 96, American politician.
* Wolfgang Becker, 94, German film director and film editor.
* Martyn Bennett, 33, Scottish Celtic musician, cancer.
* Susan Bradshaw, 73, British pianist.
* Maurice Desimpelaere, 84, Belgian cyclist.
* Horace Law, 93, British admiral.

### 31

* Ron Basford, 72, Canadian cabinet minister (1970s).
* Nel Benschop, 87, Dutch poet.
* Jack Collins, 86, American actor (The Towering Inferno, The Sting, Bewitched).
* Makarand Dave, 82, Indian poet and author.
* Malcolm Hardee, 55, British comedian, drowned.
* Ishrat Hashmi, 57, Pakistani actress.
* Bobby Howitt, 79, Scottish football player and manager.
* Hosur Narasimhaiah, 84, Indian physicist and educator.
* Ivan Noble, 37, British BBC journalist, brain cancer.
* Franz-Joseph Schulze, 86, German general during and after World War II and Knight's Cross recipient.
* Lee Segel, 72, American mathematician and writer.
* Bill Voiselle, 86, American Major League Baseball player.